Evaluation of the Ward in the Erasmus Medical Centre

In the late 1990s, Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam (Erasmus MC) was given the opportunity to formulate and develop the model university medical center of the 21st century. This paper focuses on a single aspect of the project: the concept of providing single patient rooms only in the new facility. At the time this was not only new for university medical centers in the Netherlands, but for general or acute hospitals as well.